Word: humorousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGY GIRL. The rags-to-riches story of a butler's dumpy daughter is like a thousand eccentric English comedies, but it boasts one sterling asset in Georgy herself, played with vibrant good humor by 23-year-old Lynn Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Vanessa...
...jargon," he explains, "those who experiment with rats are called 'rat runners,' and those who work with insects are called 'bug runners.' So we are 'worm runners'-and we're proud of it." Not enough scientists dig McConnell's logic-or humor. Some will not publish their work in a journal with so frivolous a name. Editors of other psychological journals refuse to allow their contributors to make any reference, however valid, to the W.R.D. "We even had trouble with librarians," says McConnell. "Many of them will not order journals with...
Healthy Disrespect. In its early editions, the W.R.D. offered a generous mixture of serious articles and scientific humor. Then, after receiving a particularly indignant letter from a famous scientist who complained that he had read most of a "technical" report before recognizing it as satire, McConnell decided to make a more obvious separation between types of articles. Humorous contributions are now printed upside down in the back half of the W.R.D. (or right side up in the front half, if you happen to open it from the back), along with a topsy-turvy back cover. This repositioning has caused...
McConnell vows that he will retreat no farther in his battle with the conformists. The new Journal of Biological Psychology will still contain an upside-down humor section and a back cover with Worm Runner's Digest printed defiantly across it. "It seems to me," says the embattled psychologist, "that anyone who takes himself or his work too seriously is in a perilous state of mental health. I believe that the Digest is proof that a great many scientists can appreciate humor even when it's pointed at their own life's work, and that a scientist...
...Hunger at length forces the man back into the world of men-or, as Dennis suggests with his bleakly sardonic view of the human race, of madmen and brutes. He is interrogated as a spy, but his unabashed cowardice confounds the military. The enemy colonel, a man of some humor, decides to let him stay in his greenhouse-with the remark that if all his countrymen were like that, the war would be over very soon. The greenhouse thus becomes a "glass house," British soldiers' slang for a military prison. But it is a greenhouse to the prisoner...